Hutch, along with girlfriend October, her brother Phineus and their friend Swink are also big gamers with October and Phineus owning an internet cafe. The funeral is also where Hutch meets Abigail, an old friend of Sarah, one of Loomis’ housemates, who has a habit of taking Polaroid photos of everything.
At Loomis’ funeral his sister donates his old games to his best friend Hutch, one of the titles being Stay Alive.
Still being Bata tested and not yet ready for general release, Stay Aliveis a horror survival game based on the stories of real life serial killer Elizabeth Bathory, also known as the Blood Countess.īata tester Loomis and his housemates are the first ones to get their hands on the game and only hours after their characters die in the game all three are found dead, dying exactly the same way as they did in the game. The lives of a small group of friends in their early 20s are turned upside down upon the discovery of video game Stay Alive. If you’re looking for something with plenty of blood, guts and gore I’d stick to the likes of Hostel or Saw, but if you’re after a bit different, a bit less fake blood and bit more eerie Stay Alive is one worth watching. However it is definitely not one to judge by its cover. With posters and DVD covers reminiscent of those of Hostel or Saw, with its red and black colour scheme and seemingly random (possibly dismembered) body parts, Stay Alive looks like it could fit right in amongst the list of modern Splatter films written off as torture porn. Stay Alive takes things one step further producing a horror film with a horror survival game at its centre where surviving the game is the key to staying alive, completely blurring the lines between reality and fantasy. In recent years there’s been more and more research time and money been devoted to supposedly proving that horror films, violent video games and alternative (usually metal) music are the reason young people go on murderous rampages, commit sadistic acts of torture or shoot up their school. The name of this game is “Stay Alive”, we don’t know much else other than we’re not supposed to have it.